I’m rambling. I haven’t done that in a long time.
“What about you?” I ask.
“I’m not sure.” She shrugs, causing her breasts to shift around temptingly. My fingers itch with the need to touch them.
Her pink bra strap is visible on her shoulder. It would be so easy to snap it off and free her perfect tits.
“I guess I’ve never really thought about it. Why?”
“Because fate’s playing a trick on us right now, Maddie,” I tell her.
“Maddie?” she asks, brow lifted.
“You don’t like it?”
She smiles. “No, I do. It’s just, you’ve never called me that before.”
I chuckle. “Well, it’s not like we’ve spent much time together.”
“True.”
In real life, I almost add but don’t.
Another pause stretches between us. I know she’s eager to know what the hell I’m doing here. She’s just too polite to come out and demand it.
I take another sip of water and then put the glass down. I need to stop delaying.
“Do you remember the time those pirates used the invisibility setting on their ship to glide up right next to us, and we spent almost two hours fighting them off?”
Her mouth falls open. Shocked.
“Or the time we journeyed to the very end of the galaxy and found the smallest star in the game? We didn’t get many resources that day, but we spoke for, what… three hours? You told me all about how you wanted to become a programmer, how you fell in love with computers after your parents divorced.”
She’s shaking her head now, as though she thinks she’s dreaming and will wake up any second.
“What about the time we played that racing mini-game until two in the morning? I think I laughed more that night than I ever have, Maddie… Gen.”
My voice is shaking now with all the withheld want and emotion.
“You’re not saying…” She bites down as if she can hardly dare to voice it. “Maxton, you can’t be saying…”
“I am.” I look at her steadily. “I’m Smolder, Maddie.”
“What. The. Fuck.”
I laugh gruffly. “Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought.”
“Are you serious?”
“I am.”
She leans forward, placing her elbows on her knees. I know I shouldn’t be thinking this right now – this is a serious moment – but she’s giving me an enticing look at her cleavage, begging me to slip between her ample breasts with my rock hard dick.
“You’re Smolder?”
“Yes.” I smirk. “Weren’t you listening?”
“I don’t understand. How can this…”
“Ask me anything.” I shrug. “Anything we’ve talked about. So you know I’m telling the truth.”
Her lips quirk playfully. “What was the name of our first pet on the ship?”
The memory makes me grin. “Starling. She was a hound from the center of a dying star, made of starlight.”
“What did we talk about at the observation window, the night we upgraded our ship for the first time?”
“Your parents’ divorce, how your mom cheated on your dad, and how you never want to be disloyal when you’re in a relationship.”
She bolts to her feet and I do the same, walking around the coffee table until we’re standing inches apart.
She looks up at me with trembling lips, tears threatening to spill down her cheeks.
“There’s no way for you to know any of that,” she says. “The game doesn’t keep voice logs, does it?”
“It does not.”
“So unless you tracked down Smolder and learned every single thing we’ve ever talked about…”
I step forward, my chest heaving harder the closer I get. My seed burns in my balls, begging for release.
“Which I’d have no reason to do. And would be impossible anyway. You and I – Genevieve and Smolder – have shared way too many memories for that.”
“Is that why you looked so pissed when I opened the door?” she asks.
“Pissed?”
“Y-yeah.” Her voice trembles and she makes a visible effort to steady herself, swallowing forcefully. “I always told you you’d be disappointed and—”
“I wasn’t pissed. If I looked that way, it’s because I know the second I kiss you, there’s no going back. There’s no way I can ever return to being the man who hasn’t kissed my best friend’s daughter. So no, Maddie, Gen, I wasn’t angry. I’m just trying, with every ounce of willpower I possess, not to…”
She whimpers, cutting off my words. The noise goes straight to the base of my cock and inflames me even more. My whole body is throbbing and aching.
“Really?” she asks.
“Really,” I snarl. “One hundred, one thousand, one million percent really. Look at you… fucking hell, Maddie, how could you ever think I’d be disappointed?”
I step forward and grab onto her hips, eliciting a gasping moan that sends more hunger blaring through me. I squeeze down hard, feeling her full hips, hips that are going to be perfect for when she gives me a family…
No, I can’t get ahead of myself.
She bites her lip, staring up at me.
“How am I supposed to resist you?” I growl. “When you’re looking at me like you want it to?”